...and more from Tom about his walk at the weekend:
Going to and from Chobham Common I walked through Virginia Water, Longside Lake, Trumps Green and Longcross. While it was generally smooth sailing some of the footpaths were a deadend due to the depth of mud and waist height water which lead to some rather large detours!
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| The first coltsfoot at Longcross. |
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A new species for me: Azolla filiculoides (floating water fern). I've been trying to find this species since moving down to Surrey in September. While its current range is restricted to the Americas, and it is considered alien and highly invasive in Britain, during the Quaternary the species moved in and out of Britain with the changing climate and is an important thermophilous indicator.
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| Azolla filiculoides. |
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| Alder cones and catkins. |
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| Female hazel flower. |
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| Willow catkins bursting open, hazel female flowers and male catkins (finding a hazel with both male and female flowers next to each other was a task and a half) and blackthorn blossom in bud. |
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| Some very large earth stars. |
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| Honey bee on mullein- there were a good few insects on the wing today, including a bumblebee, (Bombus terrestris) as well as the odd beetle and micromoth. |
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